I finally took a moment to photograph (not very well) the Dalles Mountain Face last night, and thought I'd use this as an excuse to start an ongoing museum of the weird, bizarre, fascinating, odd, scary, creepy or simply surprising things that we run into on the trail unexpectedly.
Here's the face -- and I'm sure many of you have seen it while leaving Dalles Mountain Ranch -- it's just above the junction with Highway 14 on the side of a basalt stack:
...and to keep the ball rolling, I'll add another artifact from the trail, this time from 2008 -- when I was poking around off-trail in the Lookout Mountain area, and ran across what was either one of the most inventive vision quest sites, or possibly some sort of lookout or blind..? It's a stone crows nest, with very old mortar holding the stones together:
It's also quite big - a person could fit inside quite easily. Perhaps it was a vision quest site that was later mortared for some reason... for surveying? Fire spotting..? Nobody seems to know.
Okay, what other artifacts are out there...?
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Future artifacts in the Tomlike area will be part of CH's hiking pole and 1 of my mini bungee's
that fell off his snow shoe 'bubble gum' fix!
But seriously on a Eagle/Tanner loop last year with Mayhem I could of sworn I saw a
'structure' in the woods. But it was just a huge rock wall, no pictures though.
that fell off his snow shoe 'bubble gum' fix!
But seriously on a Eagle/Tanner loop last year with Mayhem I could of sworn I saw a
'structure' in the woods. But it was just a huge rock wall, no pictures though.
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How about the "14" (or whatever it was) you can see from the viewpoint below McNeil Ridge?
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Hoods argyle mystery tree comes to mind. Its the only one on Hood I know of, and still haven't read an explanation.
And like Jerry said.... there is the "#47" mystery which... is certainly unique in that its validated in more than one random unrelated internet photo... (see thread) how did it get there?
And like Jerry said.... there is the "#47" mystery which... is certainly unique in that its validated in more than one random unrelated internet photo... (see thread) how did it get there?
lightweight, cheap, strong... pick 2
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Ahhhh..."47"...that's it
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Sounds like you were getting a bit cruuuzy bro.Eric Peterson wrote:But seriously on a Eagle/Tanner loop last year with Mayhem I could of sworn I saw a
'structure' in the woods. But it was just a huge rock wall, no pictures though.
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Yeah, and I didn't even get any Pringles or Blue Powerade either!!cascadehiker wrote:Sounds like you were getting a bit cruuuzy bro.Eric Peterson wrote:But seriously on a Eagle/Tanner loop last year with Mayhem I could of sworn I saw a
'structure' in the woods. But it was just a huge rock wall, no pictures though.
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Another oldie... I think Don Nelson ID'd this as a Nash..? Out in the woods near Flag Point:
Brakes are fair, engine needs some work... tires missing...
Brakes are fair, engine needs some work... tires missing...
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Ok, we did find something once, not as old as that Nash...
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Great idea, Tom Ive never seen the Dalles mtn face.
Did find this up Elk Creek in the coast range:
With this little baby in the middle under safe keeping apparently
Did find this up Elk Creek in the coast range:
With this little baby in the middle under safe keeping apparently